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Speedball 2 on The Sunday Versus!

We’re back with another Sunday Versus battle and today it’s time to tackle Speedball 2 on the Sega MegaDrive! This is such a great game that somehow we have never played on the channel.

About the game

Speedball 2 is a 1990 video game based on a violent futuristic cyberpunk sport that draws on elements of handball and ice hockey, and rewards violent play as well as goals. The original game was developed by Bitmap Brothers, with various remakes for many platforms since being published. It is a sequel to the 1988 game Speedball.

The game was released for multiple platforms: the Acorn Archimedes, Atari ST, Amiga, Amiga CD32, PC, Commodore 64, Sega Mega Drive, Sega Master System, Game Boy and Game Boy Advance.

Factoid – The first version of Speedball 2 was released in 1990 for the Atari ST.

Speedball 2 is one of Bitmap Brothers’ most successful titles. Zzap, CU Amiga and Computer and Video Games scored the game highly.The music, written by Simon Rogers and remixed and coded by Richard Joseph, won the 1991 Golden Joystick Award for Best Soundtrack. The voices, including the ‘Ice Cream’ salesman, were voiced by sometime collaborator Joseph Michael Burdett working under the pseudonym Jams O’Donnell. The game was voted the 3rd best game of all time in Amiga Power.

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